Eagles Nest Restaurant — Restaurant in Thredbo

In hindsight we probably shouldn't have gone on the busiest day they've ever had, but we didn't know it at the time. The location itself is lovely, but the restaurant itself was fairly awful. We had to wait half an hour for a seat, which we reserved, but then when we returned to be seated, they said it was another half hour wait for the food. I'm really trying to understand why they didn't just take our order earlier so our food could have been closer to being ready.

In any case, we waited over an hour for our food, and they didn't bring drinks or anything, not even a small bread basket. The staff were mostly superfluous. They had 5 front of house staff to cover 14 tables. They barely needed 2 people covering such a small space. I peeked my head in the kitchen as I was ordering and saw people sitting down looking at their phones. If I was the boss I'd have sent people home.

Let's move onto the food. I ordered the burger and my other half ordered the twice-cooked pork belly. The latter had flavour, I'll give them that, but the pork was closer to being thrice-cooked; tough, chewy, dry and over-done. The slaw that came with it had about 200% extra mayonnaise in it so that was left mostly untouched.

The burger was a disaster. Burger 101 is always toast the bun. The bun was cold. Like, straight out of a cool-room cold. Everything else in it was cold except for the patty, which was overdone, dry and looked like it had just been warmed up and pressed down against the griddle so all the flavours and juices had been drained out of it.

Needless to say, the total came to sixty dollars, and the ride up on the chair lift was ninety dollars, so all in all I feel immense disappointment and frustration, because if I wanted to spend 150 dollars on a terrible lunch, I'd go to Maccas and order food for the entire week.

If you're going to put a restaurant on top of a mountain, the very least you can do is hire competent staff and chefs who know even the most basic things about food. 1/10 because the view was amazing, but I'm never eating...

Perched high above Thredbo Village, sits Eagles Nest, at 1937 metres, it is Australia’s Highest Restaurant! 🏔❤️🏔⁣ ⁣ It was Dec 27th and it was a foggy morning so we decided to settle into the apartment in Thredbo for a relaxing day, Mike to read, me to work and mum couldn't sit still haha. I decided I wanted to catch the chair to the top of the mountiain and check it out, grab a coffee at Eagle's Nest and look around. The pares agreed to come and we got dressed for the mountain and as we got changed the fog completely lifted from the mountain, it was the most beautiful day!! 🌞❤️🌞⁣ ⁣ We rode the Kosciuszko Express Chairlift to the top of Thredbo and we headed on in after a fabulous walk on top of the mountain, we got close to the last of 2021's snow.⁣ ⁣ 𝘖𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘴, 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 & 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘨𝘭𝘦'𝘴 𝘕𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺. 𝘞𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘴!!⁣ ⁣ 🍏 𝐌𝐮𝐦 - apple strudel⁣ 🍌 𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐞 - pancakes and bananas and a lot of cream⁣ 🍓 𝐌𝐞 - epic scones with cream and jam⁣ ☕️ 𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞 - an affogato with Frangelico⁣ ⁣ 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸, 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘢 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰 𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵'𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘯 - 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘤 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦...

The views are amazing, and I can't put a price on how nice it was to sit and recover for a moment and really take in the mountain atmosphere. The food was actually very good and the beer selection was unique and delightful. I would definitely recommend stopping here for a small bite when you're up on the mountain!

After hiking Mt Kosciuszko my partner and I decided were tempted in by the promise of a cold beverage and a bite to eat. We were definitely expecting to get the shaft in terms of price, purely because of the location. Whoever manages this restaurant knows they're going to get tired and hungry hikers, AND they're in a touristy ski-town, AND they're on a freaking mountain so that can't be cheap to maintain.

Having said that, we were pleasantly surprised by how good the food was, and how friendly the staff were. The restaurant isn't huge, so I could see it getting busy, but as we were there during off-season I was frankly just glad that...